what's meant here are original pieces of music that are performed by their respective author(s) and are dedicated to some other musician who has passed on to do the great gig in the sky
well,which of such obituaries in sound do pass muster? and which quite simply suXoR?which do justice to the late and great so-and-so? and which, contrarily, are merely recordings of the obit'composer's helpless & artless drowning in their own tears (or worse, unashamed self-pity)?
i own up to approving of, and being moved by, e.g.
Neil Jung's 'Sleeps With Angels' & REM's "Let Me In"(ded' to Cobain, both of them)
but what about Queen's "Life Is Real", say? (& etc & etc)
what SAY you?
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 20 January 2003 04:31 (twenty-three years ago)
Neil Young's "Needle And The Damage Done" is beautiful too, its for Danny Whitten, Crazy Horse guitarist.
Are there any bad ones? I can't recall since I really can't remember too many obit songs overall anyhow.
"American Pie" is a bad one since he spends more time saying Mick Jagger sucks than that Buddy Holly rocked. That's in poor taste.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 20 January 2003 04:36 (twenty-three years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 20 January 2003 04:44 (twenty-three years ago)
(*stopstopspinninghisownmorbidthreadandcheerfullytopplesontobed*)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 20 January 2003 05:42 (twenty-three years ago)
but it's not technically a post-mortem - written before Danny Whitten died.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 January 2003 05:55 (twenty-three years ago)
― Evan (Evan), Monday, 20 January 2003 06:02 (twenty-three years ago)
a) about Nick Drake (which is what I heard), and b) an obit song?
That's a good one if it is.
― phil jones (interstar), Monday, 20 January 2003 07:26 (twenty-three years ago)
― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 20 January 2003 07:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― dave q, Monday, 20 January 2003 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 20 January 2003 10:01 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 20 January 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)
VOLAPÜK, those curiously umlaut-lovin' Frenchmen(!), haveon their 2000 cd a remarkably punch-packing & to-the-point"NUSRAT"
another rather fine tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan isTRANSGLOBAL UNDERGRAOUND's "ALI MULLA" (on 'Rejoice, Rejoice')
and i've always been unashamedly partial toART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO's "CHARLIE M", to Mingus(a piece of music which i stubbornly refuse to hear as a'routine improv-tinged-big-bandish-brass-blast' - as some former colleagues were wont fule'shly mock it)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 02:22 (twenty-three years ago)